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Powerful Force

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Shabboo Harper - Powerful Force (Original Mix)

des larmes pour demain

Sunshine Of Your Life

(riff)

We players have to pay to hear that old familiar riff 
You wanna bash me on the pavement, trying to be like Biff 
The sunshine it be stinging, swelling up my lip 
I'm in a nuclear state of mind 

Eric plays with Ginger, Ginger's running wild
There's a Sackler in the hallway giving treats to every child
The Key to the Highway, a map to Neverland 
Some Cream from my subconscious 
All Hail the New Salesman
What don't you understand
All Hail the New Salesman

They told me it was simple, we tried to take it slow
I took them at their word, but there was something dark below 
Light no longer shining, the pain, the pills, the plan
Sunshine now on fire, death of a haunted man
All hail the new salesman
What don't you understand
Death of a haunted man

The sweat, the shake, the stagefright, the mother of emotion 
You can never return from the ash and the burn this time  
Getting near dawn, lights closing their eyes  
Lie and deceive, it's a dull surprise 
Sunshine surrender, I'm still waiting for my man 
All hail
The new…..the improved….The Purdue…....Salesman 
All hail the new Salesman   
Don't trust the new Salesman

It's the Sunshine of your Life baby     
Why so sad, why so jaded               
It's the Sunshine of your Life, baby
Death of a Salesman, death's overrated 

Anyone can do it  
Face the fear, bite the hand 
Anyone can do it 
Stop the breath, thank the man 
In the sunshine
in the sunshine  
In the sunshine
In the sunshine


Hand On The Rock/Pete Brown/Eric Clapton/Jack Bruce



Sunshine of Your Life

Wanted to start with a Winters scene with flutes and layered pads.
Then jumps into pads and R and B vibe.
Vocal from Ghost Hack 
Synths Arturia ,Korg Wavestate , Serum .
Drums Arturia Spark and Apple.
Image Nadia Alanis  Friends and Family Liverpool Christmas Shoot

I'll Be There

in the heat

Disdance

alarm clock

Nocturne No.4 Op.21

collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/torni-musique

129.31- torni-feat- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

129.31-Torni-feat-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I Saw the sign - I drew the line
I pondered how the mask defines us
I’ve hidden all my feelings in a vault
I felt like I - should hide not cry
I’m blamed as all the feelings die
She may as well have bathed my wounds in salt

She said - don’t ever let me think about the past
She said - don’t be yourself - so I’m bare foot on cut glass
She said - such angry things - that I hid behind this mask
But you - your eyes

Why blame me for - a life before.
I couldn’t have fun anymore
I never thought that I had done much wrong
I gave support - though she’d purport 
My falsehood in a vocal fraught
With venom that must have been there all along 

She said - don’t ever let me think about the past
She said - don’t be yourself - so I’m bare foot on cut glass
She said - such angry things - that I hid behind this mask
But you - your eyes - negate disguise


Friends never make good lovers
But loves should always be best of friends 
After all of the turmoil
I’m hoping for something that never ends
Something so rare and so perfect
A product of the past for which I’ve made my amends

She said - don’t ever let me think about the past
She said - don’t be yourself - so I’m bare foot on cut glass
She said - such angry things - that I hid behind this mask
But you - your eyes - negate disguise
And you - bring trust - you’ve got me sussed

The Mask That Defines Us

Running in the Gutter”, BABAL’S 13th album, the 1st to be released on Fruits de Mer label Friends of the Fish, definitely hits the ground running and keeps you locked in to their immersive world of intense lyricism and potent musical ideas.
The resulting album is a beautifully crafted selection of hypnotic and rhythmic pieces, each delving deeply into the world we think we know.
BABAL have come up with an immersive, yet accessible blend of songs that illustrate the band’s superlative improvisational skills, whilst still retaining cohesive musical ideas that weave poetry and dynamic vocalizations that are central to the band’s alternative core.
Opening track “One Big Family” is a full-on attack on social media; the rise of the biggest brain-washing experiment in history; “eye sockets sore, mind in chaos, thoughts flying round, like a bird in a cage, manic with facts and terrible rage! Nowhere to go, I can’t turn the page!”.
“The Best Restaurants” is a sharp take on poverty consciousness and opposing huge wealth, and a vain hope that religions may save us, but very probably not.” All I saw was a crowd of starving souls, chewing at their wishes”
“The World that we Know” is a plea for the World to wake up to the real possibility of extinction, “I wanna green world! I wanna green world! I want it to smell good; I don’t want it to stink like it does at the moment! Open your arms and let it in!”.
“Cake Music” is a high-energy satire on the virtues of neo-liberalism, “recycle now and do your bit! Be a match when the fires are lit; move a little closer to the cholera pit! Ha Ha!”
“We shall be Fables” is a sweetly enchanting song that lulls the listener, yet reminds us ultimately of our mortality (one of Karen’s recurring lyrical themes), “life is eating us up, we shall be Fables, when the noon-tide beckons and the reaper reckons; we shall be Fables” It ain’t gonna last forever……..
Title track, “Running in the Gutter” is a truly majestic love song, poignant yet hopeful that love can still make the difference in all our lives; “you won’t applaud, it has a drive, it’s not a lot till love arrives! Love is not a number, it lives, it dies, running in the gutter, it doesn’t strive”. We can all get there, no matter how far down in the gutter we are.
“Running in the Gutter” is available on the Fruits de Mer label, Friends of the Fish, on vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming. Pre sales from 1st July, release date August 8th 2025.
BABAL will be launching the album at the Son Of Sardonicus festival of Psychedelic Delights on Saturday August 2nd, the Cellar, 25/26 Quay Street, Cardigan, SA43 1HU. Advance copies of “Running In the Gutter” will be available at the festival.
“Could it be argued that Crass are joining force with Cardiacs to deliver a Beefheart take on Byrne? Possibly, but instead of attempting to work out the influences and wonder how to describe them, instead say this is classic BABAL with the band putting their troubles behind them and being at full strength and power. Long may they continue as for prog to survive it needs to be as uncompromising and challenging as this.”
Kev Rowland: Prog Archives (author of the Progressive Underground vols 1-5).

Babal - Running In The Gutter - 01 - One Big Family

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?